Liquor is just one of the markets needed for the cover crop and cereal grain to improve the health, water retention and ...

North Bay chefs and growers have long been at the forefront of the movement to eat local, championing the return to the table of heirloom tomatoes and grass-fed beef. Nowadays, the farmers are ...

A new appreciation has developed for rye, a winter-hardy grain that develops a deep root system. Growing rye is seen as beneficial to soil health, is a strong competitor to weeds, and helps reduce ...

For nearly a century, the Codys farmed barley and rye in Alamosa, Colorado, before opening their malting company and brewery. In Lyons, 250 miles north, Spirit Hound Distillers similarly wagered its ...

Cereal rye grain possesses many uses within crop and livestock production. Growers make rye part of their corn-soybean crop rotation to boost yields, while ranchers needing an alternative feed might ...

Rye has played an important role throughout history, Laura Valli says . “Humans never deliberately chose to cultivate it, but it first occurred in fields of wheat and barley in what’s contemporary ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One of the ingredients in whiskey is increasingly being grown in outside of the United States, but there is a new push to bring that crop back to Kentucky. McCall named ...

WATERTOWN, S.D. — Researchers at South Dakota State University Extension have been conducting experiments to see if hybrid rye is a suitable feed source for cattle. It is used as an alternative source ...